Work through backlogs
Delivered by the deadline
AI-assessed · human review in progress Found and assessed by AI from the cited sources. Shown with its evidence; it is not counted in any Kept Score until confirmed.
- Announced
- 29 Apr 2020
- Due
- 30 Jun 2020
- Delivered
- June 2020
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“expect to work through backlogs by end of Q2”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company reported that backlogs resulting from demand surges in mid-March through April carried into early June, but demand slowed later in June, indicating the backlogs were addressed by the end of Q2.
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A Avery Dennison 8-K filed 2020-07-27
“The company’s operations in Europe and North America experienced significant demand surges in mid-March through April, resulting in backlogs that carried into early June... Demand for these categories slowed later in June” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -3.4% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (24 Jul 2020 to 29 Jul 2020). What this measures
Checked 18 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Other
- Indicative materiality
- Low rules
- Action
- Work
- Deliverable
- backlogs
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- Medium
- Depends on
- Customer
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “no_evidence”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the second check.
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